Encode Decode error in python : UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0

Error desc:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0:
                    ordinal not in range(128)

This type of error comes when some special character is not in range of selected encoding type.

Solution :

Find the default encoding type of python.
             python -c 'import sys; print(sys.getdefaultencoding())'
             o/p : ascii

We need to change the encoding type and try with different type of encoding. e.g.

latin-1
utf-8
utf-16-be


Create a file sitecustomize.py under this location : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sitecustomize.py

echo "import sys; sys.setdefaultencoding('latin-1')" > sitecustomize.py


Compile the python script and check the encoding type is changed by below command.
python -m py_compile sitecustomize.py

PYTHONPATH=".:$PYTHONPATH" python -c 'import sys; print(sys.getdefaultencoding())'

o/p : latin-1